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echo: fidonews
to: DAN CROSS
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2019-03-23 11:06:00
subject: Fidonet = one unizon

 On 2019 Mar 23 07:45:52, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:

 >> Why should anyone move to any other zone? There are no overlapping
 >> networks anymore, so anyone might use any zone 1,2,3,4 or even 6...

 DC> The primary reason would be to get rid of "zones" as an archaic relic
 DC> of the telephone system.

that's not what they were for... zone, regions, nets and hubs were created for
management purposes... that they were grouped by POTS calling areas is another
matter...

trivia: do you know how the NCAA played a part in the development of fidonet?
;)

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